Do confabulators really try to remember when they confabulate? A case report

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 831-852

  Zannino, Gian Daniele ^a   Barban, Francesco ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^b   Carlesimo, Giovanni ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Frontal lobes; Memory; Utilization behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFABULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

DECEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51849094446     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802365078     Document Type: Article

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